Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs . |
| 2 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 3 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 4 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 5 | I set off in pursuit . |
| 6 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 7 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 8 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 9 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 10 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 11 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 12 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 13 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 14 | Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery . |
| 15 | This section describes how to tell the LIFESPAN Process about the storage directory you set up in Section 2.3 , LIFESPAN Storage Directories . |
| 16 | As far as being listening to you talking today earlier on it seems to you set up in your minds a win lose situation , I 'll show that . |
| 17 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 18 | And you set out in the morning and you know this road , you know this road well . |
| 19 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 20 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 21 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 22 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 23 | These two disorders , surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia , have extremely straightforward interpretations in terms of the model of reading we set out in Chapter 6 . |
| 24 | I will not go further than to say ’ around 40 ’ , but we certainly intend to implement the programme that we set out in ’ Options for Change ’ . |
| 25 | Before going on to discuss the characteristics of each market we set out in Table 6.3 the size of each of the markets that constitute the London money market . |
| 26 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 27 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 28 | The night was dark as we set off in file through the trees after checking our weapons . |
| 29 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 30 | We set off in my Toyota down the now familiar road , past the police Training Centre , where motorcycling policemen were once taught to do multiple handstands on BSA motorcycles , past the Firewood project , a scheme to plant a fast-growing species of tree , now abandoned , down the long , straight , rutted road lined with workshops , past the ruined dairy farm , past more shacks which are alive with banana sellers , wood choppers , and maize roasters . |